Please join us for an afternoon of conversation and learning! September 29th 4:30–6:30 PM Join fellow law firm librarians for noshes, networking, and a look at what’s new in legal research and AI, including the latest from: 1. Intelligize 2. Lexis Legal News 3. Lexis+ with Protégé, Lexis’s AI-powered legal solution Come catch up with colleagues and explore…
The New York Law Institute will close at 1:00 PM on Friday, September 4th and will be closed on Monday, September 7, 2025 in observance of the Labor Day national holiday. NYLI will reopen at 9 AM on Tuesday the 8th of September.
You must know, if you’ve read this far!, that the Wagner Act guaranteed the rights of employees to form unions and collectively bargain with their employers. But did you know that the act only covered “private sector” workers? And that it specifically excluded agricultural workers, domestic servants and railroad employees? You may have guessed that…
While “Nutshells” aren’t exactly a top pool side read, they do offer an easy start to complex legal questions… The latest 8th edition of Introduction to Estate Planning in a Nutshell covers all the essentials; everything from a Simple Will to Charitable Trusts, Community Property and Social Security. Two of other newest nutshells involve T…
While you are surviving these ‘dog days’ (hopefully with the aid of air conditioning), you may want to check out some of NYLI’s resources on animal law…. There’s ready made topic resources on PQ Congressional — including one on the seminal Endangered Species Act of 1973 — And, for a broader and more philosophical take…
The AALL has an excellent 12-page booklet on Best Practices for Using AI in Legal Research: A Guide for Non-Lawyers. This free resource publication is available on their website and covers the following; Read more here.
Michel Sahyoun writes for the ABA’s Law Technology Today: “In legal, as in every other sector, AI has become the expected answer before the question is even fully formed. That’s not because it is necessarily the right fit for the problem at hand, but because hesitation has been reframed as falling behind. The shift toward…
Amanda Silberling reports for TechCrunch: “Everybody’s on their phone at my program!” jokes Charlie Bailey, a librarian in South Philadelphia. He’s just asked his audience to pull out their phones so that he can walk them through the steps of disabling Apple Intelligence and Gemini. “I was inspired by the feeling of people’s frustration with…